Wrestling / Former Yugoslavia - Lot 177

Wrestling / Former Yugoslavia Set of two bronze wrestling medals from the Herkules Club in Zagreb, 1929 (former Yugoslavia): - Commemorative medal from a wrestling match. Obverse: two wrestlers locked in a grapple. Reverse: inscription “Heran – Herkules / Wien Zagreb / 31 III 1929.” Diameter: 5.5 cm - Herkules Club internal championship medal. On the obverse, two wrestlers. Reverse: inscription “Prvenstvo kluba ‘Herkules’ 1929” (Herkules Club Championship). Metal to be tested. Diameter: 3.8 cm The Teškoatletski klub Herkules of Zagreb, founded in 1921, was one of the two leading Croatian wrestling clubs of the interwar period. It became the Metalac club in 1966. The club’s members included Franjo Palković, who represented Yugoslavia at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.